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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1910|01|21}}
| birth_place = [[Channapatna]], [[Ramanagara District]], [[Karnataka]], India
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| occupation = Surgeon<br>Medical academic<br>Medical writer
| yearsactive = 1936–1995
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| parents = Narayana Rao<br>Rukmini
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'''Basavapatna Narayana Balakrishna Rao''' (1910–1995) was an Indian surgeon, medical academic, researcher, writer and the president of the Association of Surgeons of India.<ref name="Dr. Basavapattana Narayana Balkrishna Rao (1910 – 1995)">{{cite web | url=http://grmcalumni.net/bnbrao.html | title=Dr. Basavapattana Narayana Balkrishna Rao (1910 – 1995) | publisher=Gajara Raja Medical College Alumni Association | date=2016 | access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> He was a professor and head of the department of surgery at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi]]. One of the founder fellows of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]],<ref name="NAMS fellows">{{cite web | url=http://nams-india.in/downloads/obit.pdf | title=NAMS fellows | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> he was also an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="IAS Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Rao,_Dr_Basavapatna_Narayana_Balakrishna | title=IAS Fellows | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 1971, for his contributions to medical science.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2013 |access-date=20 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Balakrishna Rao was born on 21 January 1910 at [[Channapatna]], a town known as a manufacturing centre for lacquered wooden toys, in [[Ramanagara District]] of the south Indian state of [[Karnataka]] in a [[Sankethi people|Sankethi Brahmin]] family to Rukmini and [[Rao Bahadur]] Narayana Rao, an ophthalmologist and the founder of [[Minto Eye Hospital]], who migrated to Mysore from [[Palakkad]], [[Kerala]].<ref name="Prof. B.N Balakrishna Rao on ASI">{{cite web | url=http://asiindia.org/prof-b-n-balakrishna-rao | title=Prof. B.N Balakrishna Rao on ASI | publisher=Association of Surgeons of India | date=2016 | access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> He did his early schooling in [[Mysore]] and after graduating in medicine from [[Mumbai University]], he continued his medical studies in England to secure an LRCP, followed by MRCS in 1936.<ref name="Dr. Basavapattana Narayana Balkrishna Rao (1910 – 1995)" /> He also completed his FRCS there in 1937 before returning to India to join Mysore State Services as an assistant professor in 1940 and became a professor and head of the department of surgery at [[Mysore Medical College]] in 1945. After serving there for two years, he moved to [[Gajara Raja Medical College]], Gwalior in 1947 and served as a professor, head of the department of surgery and a dean till 1964. His next move was to the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi]] where he continued till his superannuation in 1972, after which he served as a Scientist Emeritus of the Indian Council of Medical research till 1975.<ref name="Dr. Basavapattana Narayana Balkrishna Rao (1910 – 1995)" /> He also worked at Choithram Hospital and Research Centre, [[Indore]], for two years from 1976 to 1978.<ref name="Choithram Hospital and Research Centre">{{cite web | url=http://www.slideshare.net/naneria/choithram-hospital-indore | title=Choithram Hospital and Research Centre | publisher=Slide Share | date=2016 | access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref>

Rao, who was known to have researched on Neurosciences and [[Renal calculi]], published many articles which included ''Primary carcinoma of the liver in infancy: report of a case'',<ref name="Primary carcinoma of the liver in infancy: report of a case">{{cite journal | title=Primary carcinoma of the liver in infancy: report of a case |author1=Balakrishna Rao, B. N. |author2=Kapur, B. M. L. |author3=Shah, D. K. | journal=Indian Journal of Pediatrics | year=1967 | volume=34 | issue=12 | pages=437–439 | doi=10.1007/BF02756114|pmid=4299045 }}</ref> ''Active immunization against E. coli as a protective measure against haemorrhagic shock''<ref name="Active immunization against E. coli as a protective measure against haemorrhagic shock">{{cite journal | url=http://www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/0022-4804(70)90012-0/abstract | title=Active immunization against E. coli as a protective measure against haemorrhagic shock |author1=I.K. Dhawan |author2=B.N.Balkrishna Rao |author3=L.N. Mohapatra |author4=B. Venkataswamy | journal=Journal of Surgical Research | year=1970 | volume=10 | issue=2 | pages=67–72 | doi=10.1016/0022-4804(70)90012-0| pmid=4903368 }}</ref> and ''Bilateral Prefrontal Leucotomy in Indian Patients''.<ref name="Bilateral prefrontal Leucotomy in Indian patients">{{cite journal | url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(00)58532-8/abstract | title=Bilateral prefrontal Leucotomy in Indian patients | author=M.V. Govindaswamy, B.N. Balakrishna Rao | journal=The Lancet | volume=243 | issue=6293 | pages=466–468 | doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(00)58532-8| date=1944-04-08 }}</ref> He served as the honorary surgeon to the President of India for a number of years and was the president of the Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) for two terms during 1962–63.<ref name="Past Presidents">{{cite web | url=http://asiindia.org/past-presidents | title=Past Presidents | publisher=Association of Surgeons of India | date=2016 | access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> He was one of the founders of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] and is on the list of their founder fellows.<ref name="Founder fellows">{{cite web | url=http://nams-india.in/downloads/obit.pdf | title=Founder fellows | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> The [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected him as their fellow in 1945 and the Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the [[Padma Shri]] in 1971.<ref name="Padma Awards" /> He became a member of the [[International College of Surgeons]] in 1993 and, two years later, he died on 7 March 1995, at the age of 85.<ref name="IAS Fellows" /> The Association of Surgeons of India instituted an annual award oration, ''Dr. Balakrishna Rao Oration'', in 2000, in honor of its former president.<ref name="Awards And Orations">{{cite web | url=http://asiindia.org/awards-and-orations | title=Awards And Orations | publisher=Association of Surgeons of India | date=2016 | access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref>

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